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Linguistics and CICS faculty launch Society for Computation in Linguistics
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Gaja Jarosz and Joe Pater of the Department of Linguistics, and Brendan O’Connor of the College of Information and Computer Sciences, have been working over the past year on launching the new Society for Computation in Linguistics (SCiL http://blogs.umass.edu/scil/) , which held its first meeting in Salt Lake City in January 2018, and will meet again in New York City January 3-6, 2019. SCiL is co-located with the annual meetings of the Linguistic Society of America, which helps further its mission of facilitating and promoting research on computational approaches in Linguistics. SCiL bridges two distinct research communities: one that aims to create computational applications that process language, mostly based in computer science, and one that aims to better understand how humans process language, mostly based in linguistics. The importance of this endeavor has been recognized by the National Science Foundation, which has provided funding for workshops at both meetings. SCiL has also partnered with UMass Libraries to disseminate its proceedings on the open access ScholarWorks platform (https://scholarworks.umass.edu/scil/).